A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself. - Bernard Beckett
If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end. - Bayard Rustin
Societies in decline have no use for visionaries. - Anaïs Nin
Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food. - Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death. - Andre Gide
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan
We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. - Alan W. Watts
Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community. - Albert Einstein
A picture is made up of so many square inches of painted canvas; but if you should look at these one at a time, covering the others, until you had seen them all, you would still not have seen the picture. There may, in all such cases, be a system or organization in the whole that is not apparent in the parts. In this sense, and in no other, is there a difference between society and the individuals of which it is composed; a difference not residing in the facts themselves but existing to the observer on account of the limits of his perception. A complete view of society would also be a complete view of all the individuals, and vice versa; there would be no difference between them. - Charles Horton Cooley
All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. - Albert Einstein
An individual takes on significance only in his relationship to society as a whole. - Brian Herbert & Keven J. Anderson
Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness. - Alvin Toffler
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power. - P. J. O’Rourke
As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health. - Henry Wad Beecher
Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit. - John Stuart Mill
Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes. - Karl Marx
How to gain the advantages of society, without at the same time losing ourselves, is a question of no slight difficulty. The wise man often follows the crowd at a little distance, in order that he may not come suddenly upon it, nor become entangled with it, and that he may with some means of amusement maintain a clear and quiet pathway. - Arthur Helps
I truly believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world. - Dalai Lama
If you really wish to become a man of society, you must learn first either to be an imbecile or to hold your tongue. - Octave Mirbeau
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai Stevenson
Never try to get into society, so-called. Those who try seldom get in, and if they do edge through the portals they always feel clammy and unworthy when under the scrutiny of the elect. Sit outside and appear indifferent, and after a while they may sent for you. If not, it will be money in your pocket. - George Ade
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. - Eugène Ionesco
Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going. - Edwin H. Land
Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society. - Henry Ward Beecher
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. - Oscar Wilde
Society is a masked ball, where everyone hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society is a sphere that demands all our energies, and deserves all that it demands. - Charles Caleb Colton
Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn. - Nicolas Chamfort
Society is in a process of evolution. Man is yet primitive. All that has gone before is a preparation for better things to come, but we are moving rapidly, and, I believe, securely, toward nobler things. - Elbert Hubbard
Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good. - Robert Hugh Benson
Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever. - Orison Swett Marden
Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another. - Chamfort
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. - Arthur Stringer
The happiness of society is the end of government. - John Adams
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population – the intelligent ones or the fools? - Henrik Ibsen
To me the progress of society consists in nothing more than in bringing out the individual, in giving him a consciousness of his own being, and in quickening him to strengthen and elevate his own mind. - William E. Channing
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society. - Hillary Clinton
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